Recently, while working on this website, I found that some of the headings inside the articles were much too large. They kept interrupting the text. Once they were reduced, the pages became easier to read. It was a small change, but one I had needed to make.
There has been quite a lot of this kind of work: choosing what belongs on the first page, making the article lists consistent, keeping editorial illustrations separate from exhibition and portfolio work. None of these decisions produces another photograph or finishes a manuscript. Yet they affect how the work can be encountered, and whether I am happy to leave it here.
From November, I plan to concentrate my online activity in two places: Brunch and LuxLatens. Brunch has been a comfortable place to keep writing in Korean. Here, I want to bring together the English essays, shorter notes, images, books and research, alongside a Korean series about making photobooks. Some parts are still taking shape.
I do not need every piece to appear in both places. A subject may return in another language and at another depth. An observation might remain a short note. Something that requires more reading can wait until I have done that reading. I would like the form of each piece to follow the work it needs.
Keeping fewer places active will not remove the ordinary difficulties. There will still be sentences I cannot settle, images I cannot choose between, and references that send me back to the beginning of a paragraph. Those are difficulties I want to spend time on. I have less interest in deciding where else the same material ought to go.
The website also makes me think about what will remain together. An essay published this week can sit beside a photograph made much earlier. A book can eventually give some of those pieces a different order. I do not yet know which connections will matter. I want enough continuity to find them again without having to maintain every place where I once posted something.
Two places are enough for what I want to do now. This gives me a manageable arrangement: somewhere to continue the Korean writing, and somewhere to gather the wider work. The pages are easier to read now. I would like to leave the layout alone for a while and spend more time on what goes into it.
